Re: [Rule-www] Navigating the web site

[Martin Stricker]

Marco Fioretti wrote:
> again in the "brainstorm" spirit, any idead about how to deal with:
> 
>         site navigation: Left side frame? top and bottom menus
>         embedded in tables (as today, look at source) but dynamic?

No frames, please. Even though lynx has a somewhat rudimentary support
for them... Frames make bookmarking/linking to a certain page nearly
impossible!

As long as there is not much navigation I prefer top/bottom navigation
since it saves screen width for the really important information.

>         links to code/binaries: we are still relying on Devon's (er,
>         Michael's...) web site for slinky and miniconda, plus some
>         other stuff on savannah: we have to decide for good where and
>         how to put the stuff, and have all automatically pointed from
>         the rule-project web site (which may mean anything from just
>         "go to project site  and look there" to some cross-server
>         procedure/php real time query to list on rule-project what's
>         on freesoftware.fsf.org/).

Automatic queries to other servers needs the permission to open network
connections, which is often forbidden on hosted webspace, so some
mirrors might not be able to do this. Also, different website mirrors
might want to point to different download mirrors...

Of course we should first agree on a standardized downloads directory.
My poposal:
/downloads/installer/miniconda/$VERSION/
                     slinky/$VERSION/
           apps/$APP_NAME/ (not sure about app_version or rhl_version)
I'm not sure if the apps directories need subdirectories.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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